Improvement in trunk-hinges



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARMISTEAD M. DARRELL, or WASHINGTOII, 1). 0., assreuoa or ONE-HALF 111s RIGHT TO THOMAS nonrnancr, or SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRUNK-HINGES Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,040, dated February 1973.

To an whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARll/[ISTEAD M. DAR- RELL, of Washington, in the District of U0- lumbia, have invented a certain Improvement in Hinges, of which the following is a specification: V i

The nature of my invention, which relates,

--more especially to strap-hin gesused on trunks and the .-like, consists in providing the leaf which is tobe secured to the lid with a laterally-projecting flange or stop, so located that when the lid has been turned up to a point where its own gravity would naturally have a tendency to turn it back still further, it, the stop, shal lbring up against an elastic pad in the form of a rubber cushion upon the other leaf of the hinge inserted directly beneath the pintle. The special object in view is to dispense with'the straps ordinarily fastened upon the inside of the body and lidof trunks to sustain 'the lid when open. d a

This method of tying the lid is objectionable, the straps are liable to be torn from their fastenin gs or torn into, and they must necessarily be attached at such points to the body and lid that the latter when opened and pullling upon the straps has considerable leverage over theforlner, and, if loaded to any extent, is apt to upset the trunk. Both these objeciions are overcome by supporting the opened lid by bracing in the manner above briefly stated.

Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved hinge. lii g. "2 isa vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar section'thereof, illustrating lhe action of the stop and cushion when the movable leaf is turned back.

The same letters of reference are employed in all the figures in the designation ofidentical parts.

A refers to the stationary, and B to the movable, leaf. Their knuckles are interlocked in the usual manner, and they are connected together by the ordinary pintle passing through .Fig. 3-that is, through an arc of about ninety degrees-the flange-will bring up against the cushion, and stop the further movement f of the leaf B. The end of theecushion and side of the flange or stop are about parallel to each other when they meet, so that they will have a full square bearing against each other.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a hinge for trunks or the like uses, the stop B upon one leaf, in combination with the rubber cushion A upon the other leaf inserted directly beneath the pintle, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto signed my name this 30th day of December, A. D. 1872, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- A. M. DARRELL.

Vitnesses:

WM. H. LYNCH, J 0s. R. EDSON. 

